To help celebrate Star Wars Day, I’ve decided to talk about an incredible concert I was lucky to be able to attend with my wife and friends last weekend. It’s funny: I remember booking tickets for the concert way back during our round-the-world trip: it was a rainy day in Sao Paolo when I found out about it and immediately snapped up seats.
The event was a ciné-concert of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope held at the Théâtre de Beaulieu in Lausanne with accompaniment by the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra. I hadn’t realised before, but “film concerts” are quite a thing: the 21st Century Symphony has performed the music during showings of The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, for instance. And various other orchestras around the world have held concerts for films from the original Star Wars trilogy, too.
Anyway – I was hugely excited to attend this concert. Just arriving in the theatre was fantastic.
Then the orchestra arrived…
As a Disney-licensed production,…